In 2017, the PSP staff identified several players that would have a key role in the team’s success. Now, after a start so slow even an [anecdote about slowness, maybe a turtle?], we check back in on those players’ contributions toward the team’s success.

We look at Alejandro Bedoya, the final player in the season preview’s “Players to watch” series. The U.S. international will be asked to do many things. Where will he excel, where will he struggle, and is he the face of the Philadelphia Union?

Mental quick study Derrick Jones may become the first product of the Union Academy and wholly-owned affiliate Bethlehem Steel FC to start for the Union as a complementary player to Haris Medunjanin and Alejandro Bedoya.